scholarly journals Identification parameters of material model and large deformation analysis of inflated air-spring shell made of rubber-textile cord composite

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-128
Author(s):  
Tran Huu Nam

In the paper an orthotropic hyperelastic constitutive model is presented which can be applied to numerical simulation for the response of biological soft tissue and of the nonlinear anisotropic hyperelastic material of the cylindrical air-spring shell used in vibroisolation of driver's seat. The parameters of strain energy function of the proposed constitutive model are fitted to the experimental results by the nonlinear least squares method. The deformation of the inflated cylindrical air-spring shell is calculated by solving the system of five first-order ordinary differential equations with the material constitutive law and proper boundary conditions. Numerical results of principal stretches and deformed profiles of the inflated cylindrical air-spring shell obtained by numerical deformation analysis are compared with experimental ones.

Geophysics ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 1126-1131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Whitten Bryan ◽  
Kenneth W. Holladay ◽  
Clyde J. Bergeron ◽  
Juliette W. Ioup ◽  
George E. Ioup

An airborne electromagnetic survey was performed over the marsh and estuarine waters of the Barataria basin of Louisiana. Two inversion methods were applied to the measured data to calculate layer thicknesses and conductivities: the modified image method (MIM) and a nonlinear least‐squares method of inversion using two two‐layer forward models and one three‐layer forward model, with results generally in good agreement. Uniform horizontal water layers in the near‐shore Gulf of Mexico with the fresher (less saline, less conductive) water above the saltier (more saline, more conductive) water can be seen clearly. More complex near‐surface layering showing decreasing salinity/conductivity with depth can be seen in the marshes and inland areas. The first‐layer water depth is calculated to be 1–2 m, with the second‐layer water depth around 4 m. The first‐layer marsh and beach depths are computed to be 0–3 m, and the second‐layer marsh and beach depths vary from 2 to 9 m. The first‐layer water conductivity is calculated to be 2–3 S/m, with the second‐layer water conductivity around 3 to 4 S/m and the third‐layer water conductivity 4–5 S/m. The first‐layer marsh conductivity is computed to be mainly 1–2 S/m, and the second‐ and third‐layer marsh conductivities vary from 0.5 to 1.5 S/m, with the conductivities decreasing as depth increases except on the beach, where layer three has a much higher conductivity, ranging up to 3 S/m.


2011 ◽  
Vol 462-463 ◽  
pp. 1164-1169
Author(s):  
Jing Xiang Yang ◽  
Ya Xin Zhang ◽  
Mamtimin Gheni ◽  
Ping Ping Chang ◽  
Kai Yin Chen ◽  
...  

In this paper, strength evaluations and reliability analysis are conducted for different types of PSSS(Periodically Symmetric Struts Supports) based on the FEA(Finite Element Analysis). The numerical models are established at first, and the PMA(Prestressed Modal Analysis) is conducted. The nodal stress value of all of the gauss points in elements are extracted out and the stress distributions are evaluated for each type of PSSS. Then using nonlinear least squares method, curve fitting is carried out, and the stress probability distribution function is obtained. The results show that although using different number of struts, the stress distribution function obeys the exponential distribution. By using nonlinear least squares method again for the distribution parameters a and b of different exponential functions, the relationship between number of struts and distribution function is obtained, and the mathematical models of the stress probability distribution functions for different supports are established. Finally, the new stress distribution model is introduced by considering the DSSI(Damaged Stress-Strength Interference), and the reliability evaluation for different types of periodically symmetric struts supports is carried out.


Geophysics ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonidas C. Ocola

An iterative inversion method (Reframap) based on the kinematic properties of critically refracted waves is developed. The method is based on ray tracing and assumes homogeneous and isotropic media and ray paths confined to a vertical plane through each source‐detector pair. Unlike the earlier Profile or Time‐Term Methods, no restrictions are imposed on interface topography except that it be continuous almost everywhere (in the mathematical sense). As in the preexisting methods, more observations than unknowns are assumed. The algorithm and procedure, on which the Reframap Method is based, generate apparent dips for each source detector pair at the noncritical interfaces from the slope of a least‐squares line approximation to the interface functional in the neighborhood of each refraction point. In turn, the dip and path along the critical refractor is, at every iteration, pairwise approximated by a line through the critical refracting points. The incidence angles are computed recursively by Snell’s law. The solution of the overdetermined, nonlinear multiple refractor time‐distance system of simultaneous equations is sought by Marquardt’s algorithm for least‐squares estimation of critical refractor velocity and vertical thickness under each element.


1992 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne Rudzki Small ◽  
Louis J. Libertini ◽  
Enoch W. Small

2013 ◽  
Vol 483 ◽  
pp. 386-390
Author(s):  
Lei Song ◽  
Tong Su ◽  
Li Ying Gao ◽  
Qin He Zhang

In order to improve the accuracy of biopsy, an accurate FEM model is quite essential. To get the coefficients of the puncture target material which will be used in the Abaqus FEM analysis, the paper performed indentation test on gelatin phantom which is more stable than normal biological tissue. The Neo-Hookean and the improved Kelvin constitutive model were used to describe the mechanical properties of gelatin phantom demonstrated in the tests, including the hyperelastic and viscoelastic characteristics, then least squares method was used to fit the experimental data, finally the parameters of each constitutive model were achieved, which will be used to establish the material model in the further Abaqus FEM simulation.


2001 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Bischoff ◽  
E. M. Arruda ◽  
K. Grosh

There are many statistical mechanical models of long-chain models, two of which are the freely jointed chain model and the wormlike chain model. A continuum constitutive law for hyperelastic orthotropic materials has recently been developed using the freely jointed chain model as its basis. In this note, the continuum strain energy function is recast in general terms allowing for the incorporation of an arbitrary macromolecular constitutive model. In particular, the orthotropic constitutive model is recast using the wormlike chain model in place of the freely jointed chain model and the effects of this alternation are examined.


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